"Breaking the online dating sound barrier": April 2016

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Affinitas GmbH. 2014 financials. Revenue and Net Loss? (Affinitas Phantom Share GmbH.)

From
https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet
Search for Affinitas and see

eSynchrony wants to rebrand its name

to Compatibly or LunchConnect

Another eHarmony style copycat: eSynchrony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/another-eharmony-style-copycat_18.html

Another eHarmony style copycat: MiMediaManzana (from Peru)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/another-eharmony-style-copycat.html

Another eHarmony style copycat: TeAmoRU (from Russia)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/another-eharmony-style-copycat-teamoru.html

eDarling/EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) are only copycats of eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/edarling-german-version-homepage.html

eHarmony Spanish version / ready / 3 months free
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/eharmony-spanish-version-ready-3-months.html
eHarmony, is a 15+++++ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget. eHarmony is using the Big Five (Big5) normative test that was revealed as incomplete, incorrect and obsolete personality test. It was replaced by the Big Six a.k.a HEXACO test.The Big Five (Big5) normative personality test is the biggest mistake Psychologists made since several years ago. The Big Five is also known as the Five Factor Model theory of personality traits, a psychological model based on research by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae.

Also eHarmony has no Scientific proof its algorithm is better than searching by your own!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/eharmony-uk-continues-brains-behind.html

As some of the subdomains of the main domains of the HEXACO model are different from the subdomains of the main domains of the Big Five model, it can not be simple added the scale of the Honesty-Humility factor to the Big Five model to upgrade the personality test to the HEXACO model.

".. the Big Five's Agreeableness and HEXACO's Agreeableness are not identical. The Big Five factors do not include an Honesty-Humility factor, but some of the characteristics belonging to Honesty-Humility are incorporated into the Big Five's Agreeableness factor. Although earlier investigations found only the Big Five factors, more recent studies conducted in various languages (including English) with larger sets of adjectives recovered six factors. "
I need to hammer your head and drill holes in your brain to make you understand Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the BIG 5 model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.
Also take into account women under hormonal treatment because several studies showed contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle".
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old (the group of persons who could be most interested in serious online dating) They have only minor changes in personality (less than 1 interval in a normative test) and the 16PF5 test will not "see" them because the output of the 16PF5 test are 16 variables STens (Standard Tens) taking integer values from 1 to 10. STens divide the score scale into ten units. STens have the advantage that they enable results to be thought of in terms of bands of scores, rather than absolute raw scores. These bands are narrow enough to distinguish statistically significant differences between candidates, but wide enough not to over emphasize minor differences between candidates.
I think, legally, online dating sites using the Big Five model of personality could be considered a FRAUD because they are using an INCORRECT and incomplete model of personality.

It is OBSOLETE!!!

Tinder Social shows you which Facebook friends use Tinder

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/04/29/tinder-social-tells-your-facebook-friends-that-youre-on-tinder/

Match Group Inc (MTCH) says CEO Blatt total 2015 compensation was USD20.2 M
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSFWN17W1LB
Astronomical compensations to their C-level executives but not going to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.

Is Alexa predicting the demise of PlentyOfFish?
Match Group Inc (NASDAQ:MTCH) overpaid USD575 Million in cash for it, past its prime and in decadence!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/is-alexa-predicting-demise-of_18.html

Next Tuesday May 3rd, Match Group Inc (MTCH) is set to release its Q1 2016 earnings data.
http://www.webbreakingnews.com/2016/04/29/match-group-inc-mtch-scheduled-to-post-earnings-on-tuesday/
Tinder will not monetize as expected and it is cannibalizing Match.

Investor News: Lawsuit against Match Group Inc (NASDAQ:MTCH) seeks to recover Stock losses.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/investor-news-lawsuit-against-match.html

Tinder morphing to a social networking site. (via Digital Trends)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/tinder-morphing-to-social-networking.html

Friday, April 29, 2016

Tinder morphing to a social networking site. (via Digital Trends)

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/tinder-social-group-meetup-feature/

...... but Will Tinder collapse like Skout ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/plenty-of-upside-as-tinder-approaches.html

Digital Economy: Internet sites in Spain.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/digital-economy-internet-sites-in-spain.html

Tinder being used by children as young 13 years old.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/tinder-being-used-by-children-as-young.html

Video is now a focus for Tinder. / Match Group.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/video-is-now-focus-for-tinder-match.html

Security issues in mobile dating applications: attacks, malware and phishing. (via singleboersen-vergleich)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/security-issues-in-mobile-dating.html

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Security issues in mobile dating applications: attacks, malware and phishing. (via singleboersen-vergleich)

http://www.singleboersen-vergleich.de/news_einzel_2009/2016-04-25-analyse-dating-app-risiken-zugriffsrechte.htm
http://www.krone.at/Digital/So_werden_Nutzer_von_Dating-Apps_entbloesst-Tinder._Badoo_-_Co.-Story-507650

   93% of the tested mobile dating applications can access photos and other files on your smartphone.
   86% of the apps collect location data of the smartphone and can use it to create a complete profile of the user, including place of residence, employer and hobbies.
   13% of the investigated apps even allow themselves to access to the SMS contacts and can not only read text messages from the user, but also send SMS without their knowledge.

Badoo: A dating app with 300 million users?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/badoo-dating-app-with-300-million-users.html

Russian billionaire backer of Bumble who is also in the spyware business.

Rocket Internet SE – A detailed look. An analysis about Rocket Internet.

https://medium.com/startup-foundation-stories/rocket-internet-a-detailed-look-da4302e887e4#.umxmeztlx

Rocket Internet shares and profits fall
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/rocket-internet-shares-and-profits-fall.html

Many if not most, USA, Canada or European businesses models are unfeasible in Latin American countries, African countries, Russia or even Australia. (transportation costs could be 10 times bigger than Europe) All the domino should fall ... when they run out of money!

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Dating disaster: A 47-year-old woman falls for man, loses USD162K in Zoosk.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2016/04/26/dating-disaster-woman-falls-man-loses-162k/83539716/

article "How Profile Verification Helps Ukrainian Scammers Defraud Millions Out Of Hopeful Singles" via GDI
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/article-how-profile-verification-helps.html

FBI Warns Online Daters: Don't Be OKStupid
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/fbi-warns-online-daters-dont-be-okstupid.html

Woman Sends USD 1.4 Million to an Online Boyfriend She's Never Met ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/woman-sends-usd-14-million-to-online.html

article: Online dating scam bilks women of millions
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/article-online-dating-scam-bilks-women.html

There's A New Kind Of Online Dating Scam ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/11/theres-new-kind-of-online-dating-scam.html

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

BBC article: The science behind online dating profiles

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36105365

Please remember:
stable marriage as an economic function (as a complex mental process) is a HOAX.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/failed-and-biased-article-mathematician.html
They propose: a stable marriage can be predicted using mainly Gale_Shapley algorithm, General Equilibrium Theory and Non_cooperative Game Theory.
The Gale-Shapley algorithm is not good enough to solve the stable marriage problem because is based on initial preferences (attraction, fantasies, infatuation) and does not take into account temporal patterns of relationship variables.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/05/flawed-papers.html

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

article: Dr Love: Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-dr-love-biological.html

The Surprising Way Most People Meet Their Partners
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/the-surprising-way-most-people-meet.html

article "Critics challenge the 'science’ behind online dating"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/article-critics-challenge-science.html

About article "Online Dating and the Statistical Dark Arts"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/about-article-online-dating-and.html

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry 2015.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
Wasting precious time with Matchmakers which should be obsolete.

The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations.

Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/nearly-1000-online-dating-startups-at.html

The innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.

Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

PAPER Predicting personality traits related to consumer behavior using SNS analysis

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13614568.2016.1152313

Unfortunately the Big Five normative personality test is obsolete, it has been proven as an incomplete and incorrect model of personality. The HEXACO (a.k.a. Big Six) is another oversimplification.
The BIG5 normative personality test is the biggest mistake Psychologists made since several years ago.
The BIG5 is also known as the Five Factor Model theory of personality traits, a psychological model based on research by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/new-book-personlichkeit-auf-der-suche.html

Please see:
Artificial intelligence: Can Watson save IBM?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/artificial-intelligence-can-watson-save.html

Personality as a metric for topic models on social networks
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/personality-as-metric-for-topic-models.html

BOOK: Recommender Systems, The Textbook http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/book-recommender-systems-textbook.html

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/paper-tensor-methods-and-recommender.html

That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users. They need to calculate personality similarity between users.

In case you had not noticed, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry.
Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena?

The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns. LIFEPROJECT METHOD

Monday, April 25, 2016

Digital Economy: Internet sites in Spain.

http://www.expansion.com/economia-digital/companias/2016/04/24/5719d72b268e3eb4788b45a9.html
Reached operating ceiling.
http://www.iabspain.net/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=225
It is not mobile, it is multi-platform!

2015 Global Digital Future in Focus (by comScore)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/2015-global-digital-future-in-focus-by.html

article: The Future Of Big Data Is Bigger Than You Can Possibly Imagine
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/article-future-of-big-data-is-bigger.html

Desktop / Laptop engagement has not declined!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/desktop-laptop-engagement-has-not.html

The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html

Sunday, April 24, 2016

nearly 1000 online dating startups at Angel List ?

https://angel.co/online-dating

833 online dating startups at Angel List ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/833-online-dating-startups-at-angel-list.html

Please remember:
"online dating" is a broad concept to define a large group of different proposals. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/article-does-online-dating-work-lets-be.html
The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations, but the innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.

Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"

The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.
Proof of FRAUD from eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html
Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Badoo: A dating app with 300 million users?

Saturday, April 23, 2016

PAPER Online social trust reinforced personalized recommendation

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00779-016-0923-y

Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/paper-tensor-methods-and-recommender.html
That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users. They need to calculate personality similarity between users.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/personality-as-metric-for-topic-models.html

article: The Future Of Big Data Is Bigger Than You Can Possibly Imagine
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/article-future-of-big-data-is-bigger.html

In case you had not noticed, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry.
Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena?

The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns. LIFEPROJECT METHOD

NEW BOOK: Persönlichkeit – Auf der Suche nach unserer Individualität

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-48895-9

"BIG SIX statt BIG FIVE? Das Hexaco-Modell der Persönlichkeit"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/big-six-statt-big-five-das-hexaco.html
PAPER: A sixth personality domain that is independent of the Big Five domains:
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/paper-sixth-personality-domain-that-is.html
The normative BIG5 model (a.k.a. Big Five, FFI, FFM, Five Factor Model, OCEAN model) used at many online dating sites with questionnaires to measure personality of daters had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess personality of persons. Now it was replaced by HEXACO test, a.k.a Big Six test.
The BIG5 normative personality test is the biggest mistake Psychologists made since several years ago.
The BIG5 is also known as the Five Factor Model theory of personality traits, a psychological model based on research by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae.

Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the BIG 5 model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity. I calculate similarity in personality patterns with (a proprietary) pattern recognition by correlation method. It takes into account the score and the trend to score of any pattern. Also it takes into account women under hormonal treatment because several studies showed contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle".
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old (the group of persons who could be most interested in serious online dating) They have only minor changes in personality (less than 1 interval in a normative test) and the 16PF5 test will not "see" them because the output of the 16PF5 test are 16 variables STens (Standard Tens) taking integer values from 1 to 10. STens divide the score scale into ten units. STens have the advantage that they enable results to be thought of in terms of bands of scores, rather than absolute raw scores. These bands are narrow enough to distinguish statistically significant differences between candidates, but wide enough not to over emphasize minor differences between candidates.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/06/stability-and-change-of-personality.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/09/personality-traits-are-highly-stable.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/paper-personality-resilience-following.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/examining-relationship-between-changes.html

Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/04/personality-traits-are-highly-stable-in.html

The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY

But many online dating sites like eHarmony and its copycats like eDarling / EliteSingles, TeAmoRU, MiMediaManzana, eSynchrony and other are HOAXES.
Another eHarmony style copycat: eSynchrony http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/another-eharmony-style-copycat_18.html Another eHarmony style copycat: MiMediaManzana (from Peru)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/another-eharmony-style-copycat.html
Another eHarmony style copycat: TeAmoRU (from Russia)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/another-eharmony-style-copycat-teamoru.html
eDarling/EliteSingles are only copycats of eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/edarling-german-version-homepage.html
eHarmony Spanish version / ready / 3 months free
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/eharmony-spanish-version-ready-3-months.html
eHarmony, is a 15+++++ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget. eHarmony is using the Big Five (Big5) normative test that was revealed as incomplete, incorrect and obsolete personality test. It was replaced by the Big Six a.k.a HEXACO test.

Also eHarmony has no Scientific proof its algorithm is better than searching by your own! http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/eharmony-uk-continues-brains-behind.html

Friday, April 22, 2016

Online Dating in Germany 2016

http://www.focus.de/digital/computer/geschaeft-mit-der-sehnsucht-schnelle-liebe-dating-apps-veraendern-wie-wir-lieben_id_5458282.html

Some online dating sites tested, in Germany
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/01/some-online-dating-sites-tested-in.html

Stupid Investors Series, Today: eCift PART2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/stupid-investors-series-today-ecift.html

Affinitas GmbH. wanting to be acquired by Match Group (MTCH) ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/02/affinitas-gmbh-wanting-to-be-acquired.html

Please see also:
Online Dating 2015 Sector Report
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/online-dating-2015-sector-report.html

Some Online Dating Market Reports (January 2015)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/some-online-dating-market-reports.html

Matching algorithms and data will decide who wins the Online Dating game http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/matching-algorithms-and-data-will.html

Online Dating Market in the UK: GPB 165 Million
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/online-dating-market-in-uk-gpb-165.html
Worldwide there are over 5,000 online dating sites, no one uses the 16PF5, no one is scientifically proven yet, and no one can show you compatibility distribution curves, i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"

The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.
Proof of FRAUD from eHarmony
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html
Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Video is now a focus for Tinder. / Match Group.

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2016/04/20/tinder-founder-sean-rad-why-getting-fired-was-best-thing-ever-happened-me
http://www.businessinsider.in/Tinder-CEO-Sean-Rad-Being-fired-is-one-of-the-best-things-that-ever-happened-to-me/articleshow/51914271.cms

It seems Tinder is like Chatroulette but it will collapse like Skout.
Tinder being used by children as young 13 years old.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/tinder-being-used-by-children-as-young.html
Tinder will not monetize as expected and it is cannibalizing Match.

Tinder Reshuffles Management AGAIN in Latest Bid to Add More Experience
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/tinder-reshuffles-management-again-in.html

Tinder, Chatroulette, Twitter and PlentyOfFish (POF) and tech space that is out of control
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/tinder-chatroulette-twitter-and.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/tinder-was-hit-with-class-action.html

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

to sue AshleyMadison over data breach you must use your real name (via ArsTechnica)

"Full Delete" option that was supposed to, and didn't, remove all identifying information from the service for a USD19 fee per user.
Then it surfaced that the site perhaps made phony profiles of women to attract more men to the site.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/want-to-sue-ashley-madison-over-data-breach-you-must-use-your-real-name/
There's also a big wrinkle that could affect the upcoming class-action filing. Attorneys want to use confidential communications between AshleyMadison executives and their attorneys as part of their lawsuit in a bid to establish that the company made fake female profiles to induce people to become one of the site's 39 million members. Obviously, Avid Life Media, the site's operator, is opposed. Plaintiffs' lawyers say the data is not protected by attorney-client privilege and can be part of the case because of the "crime-fraud" exception. That exception means that a client and their attorney's back-and-forth communications are not protected if the communications were made "with the intention of committing or covering up a crime or fraud." The plaintiffs' lawyers noted a story in Gizmodo citing the hacked data in which Avid Life attorneys are discussing "fictitious" profiles on the AshleyMadison site.

article "Who hacked AshleyMadison and why?"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/article-who-hacked-ashleymadison-and-why.html

article: Can hacked data support fraud suit against AshleyMadison? Plaintiffs want to cite lawyer emails.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/article-can-hacked-data-support-fraud.html